Excerpt from The Mastery of Nervousness: Based Upon Self Reeducation Relation of food to body - Man mastering heredity - The human body an engine-food and air changed into heat and energy - Increased food plenty and high living Classes of foods - Food damage - Instinct versus rea son in eating - Food fads - The relation of food to work - The food for physical work - The food for nervous work - Food excess common - Digestive force wasted -autointoxication from food - Damaging results Of food abuse - The irritants of indigestion - Serious diseases from autointoxication - Normal alkalin ity of the tissues - Alkaline and acid-forming foods Damage from excess of sweets - Frequency of subacidosis -breaking the chemical balance of nutrition - Damage from salt excess - Damage from water restriction Damage from drug foods - Food and morals - Mental and moral inferiority due to errors in diet - Abomina tions of cookery - Unconscious criminality of the kitchen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.